Alexander MacKay

James H. and Elizabeth W. Wright Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Associate Professor of Economics


Office Address

Monroe Hall, Room 242

Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:30 - 4:30pm

Fields of Interest

Industrial Organization, Antitrust and Competiion Policy, Applied Microeconomics, Microeconomics

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Virginia
  • Master of Arts (MA), University of Chicago
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Chicago

Working Papers

Estimating Models of Supply and Demand: Instruments and Covariance Restrictions (with Nathan H. Miller). Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Competition in Pricing Algorithms (with Zach Y. Brown). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2023), 109-56.

Recovering Investor Expectations from Demand for Index Funds (with Mark Egan and Hanbin Yang). Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 89, No. 5 (2022), 2559-2599.

Contract Duration and the Costs of Market Transactions. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 14, No. 3 (2022), 164-212.

The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation (with Tatyana Deryugina and Julian Reif). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2020), 86–114.